List of Activities

Risk identified

Risk Level

What is Currently in Place to manage the risk

What future action are needed?

Daily care in the creche

Child abused within setting

low

Vetting in place to include Garda vetting, police checks, validated references.

No unsupervised access by unauthorised personnel. Staff aware of mandated requirement to report abuse.

Staff trained in child protection

DLPs appointed

Mandated persons named and listed

Planning the activities and curriculum

Inappropriate curriculum and activities 

Curriculum Policy developed to be age and stage appropriate and is monitored by the Manager on on-going basis

Daily activities in playrooms including dress up

harm by staff or

other children

low

·         Children do not take off own underwear in the playrooms  during dress up time

·     Classroom rules adapted to age of children in each room

·     Code of behaviour for working with children is implemented in each playroom

Please also refer to:

·     Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Policy

·     Code of behaviour

·     Supervision Policy

Introduce all the policies to new staff or child in our service

Management of challenging behaviour among pupils, including appropriate use of restraint where required

Poor behaviour strategies where the dignity of the child is undermined

med

·         Positive strategies only used

·         No Corporal punishment

·         No isolation

·         Professional assistance sought for very challenging behaviour

Please also refer to:

·         Policy of managing challenging behaviour

·         Positive behaviour strategies policy

·         Health & Safety Policy

·         Code Of Behaviour

Care of Children with special needs, including intimate care needs

Harm by service personnel

low

·         Letters from parents of special needs children when necessary agreeing to intimate care needs

Please refer to Policy on intimate care

Toilet areas/ nappy changing/

Changing clothes

Inappropriate behaviour

Adults going into children’s bathrooms

Dignity and privacy of a child could be compromised and an adult could harm a child in our care

med

·         Adults (including Parents, visitors etc) use designated toilets for adults, and children use designated toilets for children.

·         Parents DO NOT  accompany their children into children’s bathrooms.

·         If parent need to assist own child in the toilet at the collecting/ arrival time, they have to inform staff and then to go to the staff toilet.

Please also refer to :

·      Supervision policy

·      Toileting and toilet training policy

·      Nappy changing policy

Update toilet policy

Preparing children for outside play

Child leaving the preschool with no adult attention

low

·         Entrances are secured and the buzzer is installed high on the wall (children do not have access to it)

·         Children are always supervised by staff when in the reception i.e. collecting shoes/jackets before outside play.

Please also refer to Supervision policy

Daily arrival and collection of pupils

Harm from other pupils, Parents or unknown adults in the reception and other places in the creche building different than playrooms.

Lack of clarity about when the service's duty to supervise begins and ends

Arriving and collecting while children are playing in the  preschool garden

low

low

·         All the children are collected from playrooms or outdoor area only.  If a child is in the toilet/ corridor/ bedroom at the collection time, parent need to wait in the reception until the child comes back to own playroom to be ready for collection.

·         For the safety reason Parents have no access to playrooms

·          If someone other than the child’s parents is collecting the child the service must be advised of this. 

·         The service’s duty to supervise children begins in the playroom

for full day care children at 8am, for part time children at 8am or 1pm.

·         The service’s duty to supervise children ends at 6pm sharp. Parents need to leave the building with no delay.

·           Any children dropped before  that time have to wait with the Parent in the reception.

·           At the arrival/pick up time Parents are responsible for their own children out of the playroom (reception, service corridor, car parking).

·           The service's duty to supervise children ends at the moment of leaving the playroom by child.

·           Children have to be supervised all the time by Parents, they are not allowed to come into other playrooms, kitchen, staff toilet etc.

·           Running in the preschool corridors is strictly prohibited for the safety reason.

·      No access to classrooms by parents/ minders/ children, while children are playing in the preschool garden.

Please also refer to Arriving and Collection Policy updated in section Re-Opening COVID-19

Add to our policy more details about collecting from the garden

Substitute

staff

A substitute staff could cause harm to a child or be unaware of their responsibilities regarding child protection

low

•        All substitutes must provide current Garda vetting

•        Casual substitutes meet the DLP or Deputy DLP and are encouraged to report any concerns or disclosures

•        Long-term substitutes are considered members of staff and are given a copy of this statement as well as all necessary policies

Visitors

Harm by Adults, other than PT personnel in the creche building during operating hours

low

·         Visitors to the school can only gain access using a buzzer system announcing their purpose of visit

·         Every  visit is recorded in the visitors book placed in the reception

·         Visitors or persons unknown to staff will not have unsupervised access and visiting times will, if possible, be arranged when children are not present as they are un vetted

    Please also refer to Visitors policy

Students participating in work experience, volunteers or Parents involved in children activities

Harm from students, volunteers, parents visiting the creche)

Low

·         Students are always supervised by Play Together Staff, they are not counted to the staff ratio and never stay with kids in the playroom by their own.

•        Any volunteers, including parents, who work with children on a regular basis (other than attending assemblies or chaperoning on excursions on an incidental basis) will be Garda Vetted in accordance with the school's Garda Vetting Policy

•        Volunteers and parents working with children other than their own will always be directly supervised by a member of the teaching staff

•        Long-term volunteers are given a copy of this Child Safeguarding Statement

Please refer to Students and Volunteers policy

Outdoor activities

Harm from student

or unknown adults

Low

·         Appropriate supervision and sufficient adults to supervise outdoor activities

Please refer to Outdoor play policy

First Aid

Insufficient training of administration of certain med eg. Epipen

Low

·         Training provided on an ongoing basis at the start of each year

·         Sufficient school personnel trained on First Aid procedures and re certified regularly

Recruitment of preschool staff

Lack of knowledge and teaching skills

low

·         Child Safeguarding Statement & DES procedures made available to all staff

·         Reference checking

Please also refer to:

·         Garda Vetting Procedures

·         Recruitment policy

Using of Ipods and Little Vista software  connected to internet for education and purpose in the playrooms

Access to inappropriate online resources.

Low

Please refer to:

·       Use of Internet,Photographic,Recording Policy

Updated after the implementation of Little Vista software  

Website and Social Media

Images of children may be used inappropriately or children's identity may be revealed

Low

Please refer to:

 Use of Internet,Photographic,Recording Policy